We will study how questions of law, justice, jurisprudence and ethics have been reflected in literary selections from Periclean Athens to the present. Readings: Sophocles' "Antigone", Susanna & The Elders from the Apocrypha, Shakespeare's "Measure For Measure" or "The Merchant Of Venice", Melville's "Billy Budd", Kafka's "The Trial" and Roth's "Eli, The Fanatic". We will also consider two films, Kubrick's "Paths Of Glory" and Kramer's "Judgment At Nuremberg". We will discuss how these works of art wrestle with ethical problems within a social setting. There will be group discussion of texts and some informal lecturing for background. Instructor: Peter Bauland. This class for those over 50 meets September 22 - November 24. No class on October 13 and October 20.
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